#(return of the king)

[micahrats]

[oatmealaddiction]

No but like, this is the thing about Sam carrying Frodo and the ring up the mountain. It's a cool scene in the movie, but they don't explain what's happening at all. The ring at this point is so heavy Frodo can't even lift his head. It's like essentially a cinder-block he has to carry around his neck. And finally he gives up and Sam offers to carry him and:

DO YOU GUYS GET IT? THE RING IS A BURDEN, BUT FRODO ISN'T. FRODO DOESN'T WEIGH ANYTHING TO SAM. SAM CAN LIFT HIM EASILY!!!! HE'S NOT A BURDEN AT ALL I —

[daenerys-stormborn]

The king has got a crown again.

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Legolas saying ‘this city needs more trees’ is actually so valid. Not only from an environmental and social well-being point of view, but Gondor has one very important tree with very few fellows and therefore restricted access to nutrients, so the extended mycorrhizal network more trees would provide actively enhances the welfare of the white tree and symbolically the spirit of the nation. In this essay I will

Edit: I wrote the essay

[imsupposedtobestudying-whoops]

🗡That will depend on the manner of your return 🏹

[glorf1ndel]

I am absolutely rolling at Elrond's original hairstyle for the coronation scene in The Return of the King. He is the one named Sailor Moon

[tlotrgifs]

My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours.

[tuserlivia]

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003, dir. Peter Jackson

[theladyeowyn]

I just want to help my friends.

[autistook]

Bernard Hill

1944 - 2024

[lemmeurs]

— A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day... this day we fight.

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[dont-you-leave-him]

No one ever talks about the guilt and shame Frodo must feel after the events at Mount Doom. He failed his quest, he failed Sam and he failed Middle Earth. He got the ring all the way up to the edge of doom yet he couldn't bear to destroy it himself. Yet all of Middle Earth regards him as the hero who destroyed the ring, and he probably doesn't see it that way even though he was the one who wrestled Gollum off the edge. But he didn't do it because he was thinking of the greater good, he did it because Gollum stole it from him. And even while hanging off the ledge his need for the ring makes him consider letting go to get it, he needed to be coaxed by Sam to not let go. His behavior is so much unlike him that he becomes a completely different Hobbit with no concern for anything but his precious- something that he feared since meeting Gollum.

In the scene where Aragorn tells the hobbits they bow to no one, I always felt the expression on Frodo's face is pained almost as if he feels he doesn't deserve the praise

Frodo Baggins is such a complex character and I especially love Elijah Woods portrayal of him because you can really feel how torn apart Frodo is inside after the events of RotK. His guilt doesn't allow him to feel like a hero.

[sapphoismymuse]

rewatched aragorn’s coronation scene and i just realized you can see elrond’s heart breaking as she goes to join aragorn

like, that is the face of a man who was promised eternity with his daughter, a reunion in the west no matter what happened, only to lose her forever to love

[lotrcolors]

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

[omgitzlongdennis]

pippin: man, i sure am stoked to have pledged my undying allegiance to this country! the king even welcomed me in himself! this will be awesome!

denethor: faramir if i could make it so you died and boromir lived i would

pippin:

pippin: what